742 DIOECIA MONANDRIA. Pandanus. 
negro can finish four, and sometimes five bags in the course of 
the day. Thus the value of each bag may be computed by 
the cost, or worth of the labour of nine negroes for one day. 
Every proprietor of slaves can obtain, by letting them out to ° 
daily labour, six Spanish Dollars, or twelve Sicca Rupees 
per month; the value therefore of the labour of one man for 
a day may be rated at six annas and one third, thus taking 
the lowest number made, viz. thirty-six, the cost of each bag 
will be about one anna and a half. This to me appears a 
cheaper material than the common gunny bag of Bengal used 
in the exportation of rice and other grain in Calcutta; it 
seems also better calculated to repel wet and resist the com- 
mon injuries of transportation from one place to another. No 
difficulty would attend the cultivation of this plant in Ben- 
gal, where one, or more species of this genus is indigenous. 
This tree attains here the height of about fifteen feet, the stem 
at half that height branching into several sub-erect arms ter- 
minated by the thick foliage. It flowers in the monthof May; 
the fruit of the kind I here notice is when full grown about 
five inches in diameter, the seed large, turbinate bse: an an- 
ate apex. , 
2, P. foetidus, Roxb. a. 
| Partial racemes, or thyrses of the male flower eieniphes 
Germs distinct. — sapere pointed, with oneaeas 
oj Beak Siete 
‘Beng, Kea-kanta. 
- Found in Bengal, growing wild in uncultivated spots near 
Calcutta, ‘Flowering time the cold season; the fruit sw 
during the hot sbraths of May and June, 
_ T never saw a plant with any thing like a stem, but al- 
ways in the form ofa thick impenetrable bush, of from five 
to six feet high. Leaves as in P. odoratissimus, but smaller. 
Male inflorescence as in P, odoratissimus, ,only here the secon- 
dary racemes, or thyrses, are simple, — facut 
